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Platinum

Deutsche Börse Group, headquartered in Germany, is one of the world’s leading exchange organisations with more than 5,000 employees. The group provides investors, financial institutions and corporations with access to global markets. It operates the international derivatives exchange Eurex as well as the leading European electronic securities trading platform Xetra.

The Market Data + Services business area provides decision makers around the globe with high quality data and technology services. The extensive product and service portfolio comprises real-time, ultra-low latency and historical trading data from the group’s own trading venues as well as from cooperation partners, real-time analytics, the renowned DAX and STOXX indices, superior exchange infrastructure as well as regulatory reporting services. For more information, please visitwww.mds.deutsche-boerse.com.

Host

Thomson Reuters connects and powers the global financial community through our open and trusted news, data, analytics and insight, tools and applications, trading capabilities, and infrastructure and services – enabling discovery, liquidity and compliance.

We help our customers uncover critical insights and market opportunities and connect to the largest network of financial professionals – enabling better decisions and more confident actions. We create efficiencies that drive profits with scalable infrastructure and services that enable faster and smarter performance.

Our trading applications and venues provide access to liquidity that connects customers, markets and helps them to not only comply but to thrive, for more information visit the following sites to learn more: www.financial.tr.com, www.risk.tr.com , www.mifidii.com

Gold

The Bloomberg Professional Services connect decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. At the core of this network is our ability to deliver data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately to individuals and across enterprises.

FENICS® is a subsidiary of BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ:BGCP), a leading global brokerage company servicing the financial and real estate markets. FENICS® PRO is licensed for use at over 350 client sites worldwide. FENICS® operates from offices in London, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo.

ICE Data Servicesoffers a robust end-to-end solution for information, analytics and connectivity, with a range of proprietary data and tools for global markets across fixed income, equities, commodities, FX and options. From exclusive real-time data driven by 12 global exchanges, leading continuous fixed income evaluated pricing, reference data and analytics, to robust desktops, trading tools, and connectivity solutions, thousands of market participants around the world deploy our award-winning data services to inform their market and economic perspectives and decision-making. For more information, please visit:www.theice.com/data

Premium Visibility Sponsors

CME Group is the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, handling 3 billion contracts worth approximately $1 quadrillion annually (on average). The company provides a marketplace for buyers and sellers, bringing together individuals, companies and institutions that need to manage risk or that want to profit by accepting risk.

Our exchanges - CME, CBOT, NYMEX and COMEX - offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate. As part of our commitment to providing innovative risk-management solutions to the marketplace, CME Group also offers a growing slate of cleared OTC products and services.

Through our CME Globex electronic trading platform, users worldwide are able to access the broadest array of the most liquid financial derivatives markets available anywhere. Additionally, CME Group operates CME Clearing, one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers. By serving as the counterparty to every trade that happens in our markets, we protect the integrity of our markets, virtually eliminating third-party credit risk.

FactSet (NYSE:FDS | NASDAQ:FDS) delivers superior analytics, service, content, and technology to help more than 85,000 users see and seize opportunity sooner. We are committed to giving investment professionals the edge to outperform, with fresh perspectives, informed insights, and the industry-leading support of our dedicated specialists. We're proud to have been recognized with multiple awards for our analytical and data-driven solutions and repeatedly ranked as one of Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For and a Best Workplace in the United Kingdom and France. Subscribe to our thought leadership blog to get fresh insight delivered daily at insight.factset.com. Learn more at www.factset.com and follow on Twitter: www.twitter.com/factset.

Silver

ACTIV Financial Systems is a global provider of real-time, multi-asset financial market data and solutions. ACTIV offers neutral, managed services for buy and sell-side firms and technology providers seeking a complete market data solution that encompasses both global content management and data delivery across the enterprise. With coverage spanning more than 150 equity and derivatives exchanges around the world, ACTIV is the only truly end-to-end, independent market data utility in the industry. Founded in 2002 by market data specialists, the firm is privately owned and has offices in Chicago, New York, Tokyo, Singapore and London.

The Association of National Numbering Agencies supports international trading and worldwide processing efficiency through the assignment of ISO-standard identifier codes to a broad range of investment instruments. ANNA serves as the Registration Authority for the core ISO financial identifier, the International Securities Identification Number (ISIN), which is allocated across all instrument types in more than 200 countries along with the Classification of Financial Instruments (CFI) and Financial Instrument Short Names (FISN) codes.Under ANNA’s stewardship since 1992, the ISIN is the recognized global standard for instrument identification. For more information, please visitanna-web.org.

CJC specializes in cloud technology, as well as consultancy and managed services that optimize data and trading technology operations, processes and commercial control for global capital markets firms. We help our clients:

·Transform data platforms, both technically and commercially, to control costs

·Access innovative technology solutions

·Understand and comply with a raft of regulatory obligations

·Improve operational processes and control

With a global reach and offices in London, New York, Hong Kong and Singapore, we'd be delighted to learn of the challenges you face around data and how we may be able to help. For further information, visit www.cjcit.com and follow us at www.twitter.com/cjc_marketdata

The financial services industry relies on CUSIP Global Services unrivaled experience in uniquely identifying instruments and entities to support efficient global capital markets. Its extensive focus on standardization over the past 45 years has helped CGS earn its reputation as a trusted originator of quality identifiers and descriptive data, ensuring that essential front- and back-office functions run smoothly. Relied upon worldwide as the industry standard provider of reliable, timely reference data, CGS is also a founding member and co-operates the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) Service Bureau, a global security and entity identifier database for over 34 million public and privately traded instruments, contributed by 92 national numbering agencies and 27 partner agencies representing 255 different countries. CGS is managed on behalf of the American Bankers Association (ABA) by S&P Global Market Intelligence, with a Board of Trustees that represents the voices of leading financial institutions. For more information, visit www.cusip.com.

At S&P Global Market Intelligence, we integrate financial and industry data, research and news into tools that help track performance, generate alpha, identify investment ideas, understand competitive and industry dynamics, perform valuation and assess credit risk. Investment professionals, government agencies, corporations and universities globally can gain the intelligence essential to making business and financial decisions with conviction.
S&P Global Market Intelligence is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence.

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Tullett Prebon Information is the leading provider of independent real-time price information from the wholesale interdealer brokered financial and commodity markets. Tullett Prebon Information is part of TP ICAP group, a fully diversified interdealer broker with leading positions in global fixed income securities, money markets, capital markets, equities, energy, credit and associated derivative products, and a principal source of market information for Tullett Prebon Information.

Tullett Prebon Information has been voted Best IDB Data Provider 2017 by Inside Market Data for the seventh consecutive year.

Tullett Prebon Information delivers the highest-quality independent price data using state of the art technologies and data publication standards.

Barista Sponsor

ICAP Information empowers you to make trading decisions with authoritative and independent over-the-counter (OTC) market information from ICAP, a leading markets operator. We provide data services across all key asset classes and offer innovative solutions for real-time, end-of-day and historical products. Our data is the intelligence behind algorithmic trading, research models, risk and compliance applications and portfolio pricing and management. We are a key source of mark-to-market data for the industry. ICAP Information delivers 100,000 instruments generating an average of 300 million updates per day.

ICAP Information is part of TP ICAP group, a global firm of professional intermediaries that plays a pivotal role in the world’s financial, energy and commodities markets. For more information, please visit www.icapinformation.com or contact enquiries@icapinformation.com

Data Management Segment

The SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU) is a managed service that delivers complete, accurate and timely reference data for use in critical regulatory reporting, trade processing and risk management operations, dramatically simplifying and reducing unnecessary costs for financial institutions.

The RDU acts as a processing agent for its participants selected data sources; sourcing, validating and cross-referencing data using market best practices so that these processes do not need to be duplicated in every financial institution. An experienced global team, who operate under the compliance frameworks of their customers, deliver data that is fit-for-purpose, consistent and in a format that is specific to the financial institutions’ needs. www.smartstreamrdu.com

Technology Forum Segment

Colt Capital Markets delivers highly secure, on-demand services designed to meet the requirements and speed of the financial markets. Colt works with 18 of the top 25 banks and diversified financial groups, over 50 exchange venues and 13 European central banks. Its Capital Markets propositions include Colt PrizmNet, a next-generation extranet service dedicated to the financial sector, MarketPrizm market data feeds, hosting, and tailored connectivity solutions. Colt’s customers also benefit from Colt’s SDN-enabled, intelligent network, known as the Colt IQ Network, which has been designed to provide on-demand access to global data centres, public cloud providers, as well as participants’ premises. For more information, please visit http://www.colt.net/capitalmarkets/

Event App Sponsor

NEX Data, A NEX Group business

NEX Data operates within NEX Optimisation which helps clients simplify complexity and optimise resources. We are a market intelligence and price information service delivering independent OTC data for real-time, end-of-day and historical products. Our data covers the transaction lifecycle and allows clients to execute efficiently. There are over 400 million updates per day and constant advances in our product sophistication. We provide the intelligence behind algorithmic trading, research models, risk and compliance applications, and portfolio pricing and management. For more information, go to www.nexdata.com

Bronze

Ballintrae is a leading market data management company. We specialise in data assurance services for both clients and data providers. Our deep exchange rules and regulations and client infrastructure expertise gives us a clear edge in helping providers understand client data usage and clients in managing their compliance.

Recently, Ballintrae has become the centre of gravity for a transformative, industry-supported market data management shared service utility. Much of market data management within capital market firms confers no competitive advantage. And monitoring, compliance and reporting can act as a significant drag on profitability. An industry-wide shared service utility is the logical answer to this issue.

As the investment banking industry becomes more aware and familiar with sharing functions across the ecosystem, a shared service utility will provide an unapparelled high quality service upon which it can rely for all market data management needs – along with the obvious advantages of much lower costs. Similarly, exchanges will be able to rely on clients being compliant once they are in a shared service utility – a clear advantage in saving of auditing costs and greater transparency of data usage.

Bats Global Markets (Bats), a CBOE company, is a leading global operator of exchanges and provider of services for financial markets around the globe, making markets better for traders, investors and issuers. Bats was acquired by CBOE Holdings in February 2017, creating a firm with a combined track record of improving markets through product innovation, cutting-edge technology, and superior customer service.

CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE), owner of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the Bats Exchanges, CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) and other subsidiaries, is one of the world’s largest exchange holding companies and a leader in providing global investors cutting-edge trading and investment solutions. The company offers trading across a diverse range of products in multiple asset classes and geographies, including options, futures, U.S. and European equities, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and multi-asset volatility and global foreign exchange (FX) products. Visit bats.com and cboe.com for more information.

BT is one of the world's leading providers of networked IT services to the global financial community, with more than 30 years’ experience delivering specialized network-centric and hosting services designed specifically to meet the demanding requirements of our customers across the financial markets, banking and payments sectors globally. These include our industry award-winning BT Radianz Services that support the largest secure networked financial community in the world

ChartIQ offers a wide range of innovative data visualizations for time series charting that intuitively puts social, fundamental, and macro data in the context of charts across all asset classes. Our Charting Library and visualization engine allow users to layer in proprietary data sets on top of traditional market data, providing a rich context that exposes tradable market opportunities. We empower traders of all types — and from all financial backgrounds —to expand beyond traditional charts and asset classes. Implementing the ChartIQ Charting Library improves overall end-user experience, time on site, and conversion rates for banks, brokerages and trading platforms around the world.Visit chartiq.com for more information or follow us on Twitter at @chartiq

Markets don’t stand still. To succeed, our clients must navigate the changing FX marketplace with efficiency. They need a partner they can trust.

No one has contributed more to the growth of this market than CLS. We’re proud to be the world’s leading provider of FX settlement services. Our innovative thinking has transformed FX by reducing risk and, since our launch in 2002, we’ve created significant efficiencies and cost-savings for our clients. We’ve earned the trust of our members - over 60 of the world’s most important financial institutions. With more than 24,000 third-party clients using our services we settle USD5 trillion of payment instructions on an average day.

GFD Complete Data: The New Standard. Since 1992, Global Financial Data has filled the gaps that limit market analysts who use traditional data feeds. GFD has searched global archives to complete the time series only we offer. GFD appends the current data to the historical data; offering complete, unabridged data series unavailable from any other data source.

Infront is a leading market data and trading solutions provider for finance professionals. It provides a unique combination of real-time global market data, news, analytics and trading tools. With proven solutions developed over 20 years by industry experts - and with product development driven by our clients' business needs - we have delivered the technology to keep our clients ahead of the game. Over 20 000 professionals in more than 50 countries worldwide rely upon our services. The Infront Professional terminal has become the most intuitive and flexible financial data terminal available, helping institutions to reduce costs, adapt to fast changing market requirements and to be able to work more effectively with the increasing amount of information available. Visit infrontfinance.com for a free trial or follow @infrontfinance.

IPC is the technology and service leader that powers the financial markets globally. We meet the Communication, Compliance and Network Solution needs of global financial institutions. We help clients anticipate and solve problems, setting the standard with industry expertise, exceptional services and comprehensive technology.

As the industry leader IPC’s global financial community includes over 6,000 market participants in 700 cities across six continents. Through service excellence, long-developed expertise and a focus on innovation and community, we provide agile and efficient ways for our customers to accelerate their ability to adapt to the ever–changing requirements for advanced data networks, compliance and collaboration with all counter-parties across the financial markets. For more information, visit www.ipc.com

Nasdaq Global Information Services (GIS) gives market participants the ability to see, measure, and act on opportunities across asset classes, and over time, through advanced analytics built on core—structured and unstructured—data, indexes, and exchange-traded products. As a key contributor to Nasdaq’s Innovation Lab, GIS creates and fields leading-edge functionalities based on machine intelligence, providing financial institutions and investors with real-time, intraday, and post-trade information and transparency.

S&P Dow Jones Indices, a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), is the largest global resource for essential index-based concepts, data and research, and home to iconic financial market indicators, such as the S&P 500® and the Dow Jones Industrial Average®. More assets are invested in products based on our indices than based on any other provider in the world. With over 1,000,000 indices and more than 120 years of experience constructing innovative and transparent solutions, S&P Dow Jones Indices defines the way investors measure and trade the markets. For more information, visit www.spdji.com

TickSmith specializes in financial Big Data applications that do away with capacity issues. Described as a "financial data lake platform for Capital Markets", TickSmith's flagship platform, TickVault, is used for data centralization and distribution, market surveillance, strategy discovery, and analytics.

TickVault is a comprehensive platform used by exchanges and data vendors, trading, risk groups and regulators to accumulate, transform, analyse and disseminate Terabytes and Petabytes of financial data from quote feeds, trading systems, event feeds and more. With its specialized tools and modules, TickVault provides easy access to data, analytics, time-series, workflow, reports, entitlements and web store via point and interfaces and APIs.

Trax is a leading provider of capital market data, trade matching and regulatory reporting services to the global securities market. In 2016 Trax processed 1.2 billion transactions on behalf of its user community including 13 million fixed income transactions. Trax provides capital market firms with information to assist them in conducting net asset valuations, mark-to-market calculations, fixed-income portfolio mapping, liquidity and volume modelling, as well as reference data population updates. It also provides a wide range of pricing data for approximately 70,000 unique bonds, volume data on over 52,000 individual bonds as well as securities reference data for over 301,000 government bonds, corporate bonds, medium-term notes and private derivative issues.

Trax is based in London and was originally established in 1985. Acquired by MarketAxess in 2013, Trax is a trading name of Xtrakter Ltd. and is a wholly owned subsidiary of MarketAxess Holdings, Inc. For more information, please visit www.traxmarkets.com.

TRG provides spend management solutions enabling enterprises to gain total cost transparency and control of their entire universe of corporate subscriptions and vendor relationships. Founded by senior IT executives from global investment banks in 1998, TRG provides software and services which help companies streamline their expense management, reduce costs, and make informed decisions about spend on subscription-based services including market data, software, research, information services, consulting, and more.

Media Partners

A-Team Group has been delivering distinguished content on behalf of financial data and technology suppliers since 2001. Run by experienced business journalists, we thrive on taking complex business and technology topics and turning them into compelling content assets to drive lead generation and prospect nurturing with a measurable ROI. The A-Team Group also organise the RegTech Summit for Capital Markets 2017 taking place on October 5, 2017 at The Guoman Tower Hotel, London. Find out morehere.

FISD is a neutral forum that has served the financial information industry for 25 years. Our 200+ global member companies recognize that market data distribution, efficient trade execution, and regulatory compliance require a high level of consistent and predictable service - all of which are dependent on the close cooperation of many independent organizations and systems. Industry stakeholders support FISD as the forum of choice to identify and resolve the business and technical issues that affect the administration, distribution, and utilization of financial information.